Doug Trumm
Doug Trumm is publisher of The Urbanist. An Urbanist writer since 2015, he dreams of pedestrian streets, bus lanes, and a mass-timber building spree to end our housing crisis. He graduated from the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington in 2019. He lives in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood and loves to explore the city by foot and by bike.
Hacks and Wonks hosted a panel on primary election results with four top political strategists. Check out the video for their takeaways.
The South Lake Union Streetcar has been out of operation since August 9 due to electrical issues, and there is more trouble down the line.
A third of King County Metro's pre-pandemic transit ridership has yet to return, and many agencies are seeing stronger rebounds. Where did the bus riders go?
Progressive urbanists appear poised to flip a Seattle City Council seat, win the Pierce County Executive race, and expand their caucus in the state legislature.
Facing waning demand for office spaces, landlords are weighing housing conversions, with Mayor Harrell and the Seattle City Council aiming to nudge them in that direction with a recently passed package of regulatory incentives. Financial incentives could be next, but hurdles remain.
The Urbanist and Downtown On The Go are excited to co-host a two-part book talk event in Tacoma on Saturday, August 3, featuring Disability Mobility Initiative director Anna Zivarts and Seattle Bike Blog founder Tom Fucoloro. The safe streets summit will kick off with a family-friendly social at Wright...
The Sound Transit board showed it was taking delay costs seriously in rejecting late changes to the South Lake Union's Ballard Link stations. However, that principle could indicate a harder path to resurrect Chinatown's 4th Avenue station, based on how the board has designed the process.
Mayor Bruce Harrell and Governor Jay Inslee were on Thursday's program at Bloomberg Green Festival hosted at the Seattle Center. Both touted local leadership on environmental issues, even as that work remains tenuous.